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A one-day medical cannabis conference geared mainly toward medical professionals and older people with chronic diseases but of interest to many others will be held Saturday, January 22 in Laguna Woods. The impressive line-up of speakers is headlined by Dr. William Courtney of Mendocino and Dr. Donald Abrams of UC San Francisco and head of hemat0logy/oncology at San Francisco General Hospital. Also speaking are Bill Britt, a court-qualified cannabis expert, Lanny Swerdlow, RN, from the Inland Empire, Anna Boyce, RN, one of the original sponsors of Prop. 215, and several representatives from Americans for Safe Access.

You need to buy tickets in advance to get in the Laguna Woods gate, which you can do at this Website. This looks like a genuinely educational opportunity, and of course the more people who get reliable information about the medical properties of cannabis the better, IMHO.

While many are wondering about the future of outright marijuana legalization in the next few years, some cops are still trying to nullify Prop. 215, the medical marijuana law voters approved by initiative in 1996 and the legislature cemented with legislation in 2003. But San Jose police chief Stephen Lodge has been raiding dispensaries in the city, claiming they are operating outside state law. The dispensaries claim they are operating under the cooperative/collective provisions of the 2003 law, not the caregiver provisions of the original initiative (which have been subject to ambiguity, though court decisions have resolved much of it in ways that suggest the arrests San Jose has made are not going to stick). However, police who want to nullify the decisions of the voters and state legislature still have the power to arrest people and force them to spend money on lawyers and court costs before the cases are dismissed. Looks like unlawful harassment to me, but who's going to arrest the cops? Qui custodiet? Here's a release from Americans for Safe Access: